Re: Language tree rooted in Asia-Minor

WolfWolf quoted:

> "The Kurgan people were an Indo-European culture existing during the fifth, fourth,
> and third millennia BC; 

The term Indo-European can hardly be used in the linguistics sense,
since
we don't know what they spoke.

Archaeologists of 5000 A.D. will find graves topped by crosses. What
will
that tell them about the languages those people spoke?

> various authorities have mounted a case for them being THE proto-Indo-European
> culture

The various authority might be Gimbutas. See Krell for a rebuttal.

> The word kurgan means barrow or grave in
> Slavic and Turkic

Red herring. it is a modern designation. When French archaelogists 
found the Rosetta Stone and called it "la Pierre de Rosette", the
word "pierre" meaning "stone" in French, what did that make it?
Evidence of French being the ancestor of Coptic?


> > The only thing the above research proves is that Greek, Hittite, Armenian,
> > Persian and Germanic derived from a common ancestor. It does not prove a
> > link with either Latin or and Slavic languages which both need to have split
> > from a common Asiatic  root 17,000 years ago somewhere in the Ukraine.

Oh that is a gem! Who wrote it? (I snipped too much). Ah, Agamemnon!

"Ce roi barbu qui s'avance, 
 bu qui s'avance, 
 c'est Agamemnon.
 Ce nom seul me dispense,
 seul me dispense,
 d'en dire plus long!"

> > Funnily enough the name Indo-European is apt since it implies a merging of
> > an Asiatic langue with a European one

WOW! Beauty!
 
> SHEER POPPYCOCK!!!!

No no no. Not "sheer" poppycock, but _advanced_ poppycock.